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p.2 #1 · Wide aperture shooting - what's the trick?!?!?

sworth, this is all manual focus :-)

Nov 23, 2008 at 08:10 PM

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p.2 #2 · Wide aperture shooting - what's the trick?!?!?

You know - it's kind of cool NOT being a sharpness junkie for once.

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This is going to be fun :-)

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Nov 24, 2008 at 03:50 AM

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p.2 #3 · Wide aperture shooting - what's the trick?!?!?

some of you guys are shakey bastards if you can't handhold a 50 at 1/100th.

Nov 24, 2008 at 04:34 AM

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p.2 #4 · Wide aperture shooting - what's the trick?!?!?

Did you ever see "Blazing Saddles"?

"but this is the hand I shoot with...."

That's me :-)

Actually partly due to a blood sugar condition - but hey, I never claimed to have steady hands.

Nov 24, 2008 at 04:48 AM

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p.2 #5 · Wide aperture shooting - what's the trick?!?!?

So let me ask this - if I get the Ec-S screen, I'd have to change it out occasionally? How hard is that to do?

I have the following lenses:

AF:
Vivitar 100mm 3.5 macro (more like a MF lens, but it's f/3.5 so...)
Canon EF 17-40 F4L
Canon EF 70-200 F4L
Tamron 28-75 2.8 - this is the one on the camera 90% of the time
Canon 50mm 1.8 II

MF:
Zenitar 16mm fisheye
Minolta Rokkor-X PF 55mm 1.4

I guess I'd have to choose for each occasion, if I prefer MF or AF, and choose the focusing screen that works best? What about all this shimming?

Changing screens doesn't sound like something I want to do on a regular basis...

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Nov 26, 2008 at 03:33 AM

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p.2 #6 · Wide aperture shooting - what's the trick?!?!?

Nah, just get the Ec-S and leave it in.

Nov 26, 2008 at 04:10 AM

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p.2 #7 · Wide aperture shooting - what's the trick?!?!?

but won't that be a problem with the F4 lenses?? will I have a dark viewfinder?

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Nov 26, 2008 at 05:47 AM

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p.2 #8 · Wide aperture shooting - what's the trick?!?!?

Yes but from your list you only have AF lenses at f4. I don't like to manual focus on f4 lenses with any screen unless it is very bright and sunny.

Nov 26, 2008 at 06:49 AM

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p.2 #9 · Wide aperture shooting - what's the trick?!?!?

TVRguy wrote:
but won't that be a problem with the F4 lenses?? will I have a dark viewfinder?

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Dark?

It's all relative.

I stuck my Ee-S (the 5D equivalent of the Ec-S) in on day 3 and it has been in there ever since.

I can use it with my f5.6 mirror lens (manual focus), and for slower AF glass it is fine too. People overstate the darkness issue in my opinion. The only way to find out is ...

Nov 26, 2008 at 12:18 PM


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